Apraxia Uncovered
The Seven Stages of Phoneme Development
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Pam's second material on childhood apraxia presents a deep perspective on speech sound development.
book & seminar details
Using a month-by-month developmental framework, Pam describes how to nurture sound development in children who have great difficulty learning to make sounds and speech. She integrates information from articulation, phonology, oral-motor, and infant vocal development into a comprehensive plan of treatment.
This material will help you understand how to help the child make a wider variety of consonants, vowels, syllables and words, and to become more intelligible. Techniques are appropriate for children of all ages. Apraxia Uncovered contains:
- Hundreds of therapy suggestions
- Reference book that fully summarizes lecture material
- Based on thirty years of Pam's clinical experience
- Pam's famous practical style
Apraxia Uncovered is also available as a book only (without the CD's).
the seven stages of phoneme development
- Preparing - getting the voice ready for speech
- Speechifying - making utterances sound speech-like
- Honing - zeroing-in on non-vocalic consonants differentiated by place
- Oscillating - incorporating reciprocating oral movements
- Solidifying - establishing basic syllable constructions
- Advancing - leaping beyond simple syllable constructions
- Finishing - adding clusters and stridency at all levels of speech
a special note to parents
Pam has written this book and recorded this seminar in such a way that you will be able to follow the content. However, before you dig into this rather detailed material, Pam recommends that you read her earlier book, Becoming Verbal With Childhood Apraxia.
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feedback
"I found Apraxia Uncovered to be extremely powerful in my understanding of apraxia and how to better treat my young students experiencing speech motor planning issues! Thank you."
Kathleen Anasagasti, SLP
"I am sooooo pleased at the improvement in my awareness and understanding of speech sound development since listening over and over to your Apraxia Uncovered program. Thank you!"
Rita Gittinger, SLP
"Your Apraxia Uncovered program has been a big asset to my therapy tools. The breakdown of each stage has helped clarify progress that is being made that I may not have recognized previously, e.g. listening for prolongation. It is helping me set more appropriate goals as well. It's making this slow process of speech development more encouraging for the families too!"
Anonymous, SLP
common question about this material
Can you tell me how your books "Becoming Verbal With Childhood Apraxia" and "Apraxia Uncovered, The Seven Stages of Phoneme Development" are different? Which one should I read first?
ANSWER:
- Think of Becoming Verbal With Childhood Apraxia as Part 1. It is about how to get kids more vocal, verbal, communicative, imitative and interactive, and how to get them to play with the sounds they make. Read it first.
- Think of Apraxia Uncovered, The Seven Stages of Phoneme Development as Part 2. It is about how sound develops over time - from the vocalizations of the infant to the sophisticated consonant and vowel sequences of the three-year-old. Read it or listen to the recorded seminar second.
